2nd & 3rd Months

These months were rough, I'm not going to lie.  Mike & I both wondered what we had gotten ourselves into.

The bad:

• I was SO sick!  Starting the second week of October and going a week into December I had morning sickness 24/7.  The only time I wasn't in misery was when I was asleep.  My daily routine was to get up, shower, put my hair in a pony tail, eat some oatmeal, go to work and teach from my chair all day, come home and crawl into bed and do it all over the next day.  On the weekends I literally laid on the couch all day.  I went to church sometimes and didn't other times.  It was rough!  Things that got me through were my amazing husband, my sea bands, and eventually my good friend Zofran. :)
• It is pretty rough having to go to the bathroom as much as you do when you're pregnant when you are teaching 2nd graders all day.
• I did not love being so sick and having to pretend that I wasn't.  I ended up telling a co-worker and my boss, but didn't tell anyone at church until December.  Right before I started telling people a few people started asking me if I was ok and one person even told me I looked green. Ha-ha!
• November was just not awesome.  I was sicker this month than in October and I had a lot of minor things going on that kept me busy in the evenings when I just wanted to be in bed.  I also had to go to a work conference in Vegas.  Mike came with me (thank goodness!), but really we just sat in the hotel anytime I had free time because I didn't want to do anything else.  We decided that we shouldn't go anywhere for Thanksgiving because I wasn't up for traveling, but that meant sitting in our house for 4 days with nothing to do and it was a bit rough when everyone else was celebrating.  

The good:

• We got to see out little blob for the first time on Oct. 2nd and then got to hear her heartbeat on Oct. 14th.  That was pretty incredible and I think we both teared up a little!  I tried to hold on to that sound when I was feeling like I was going to die a horrible morning sickness death. :)

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  Out Little Blob :)

• October was also great because I got to spend a week in Utah with family!  My parents already knew about the baby, but I got to tell my siblings and Mike's siblings in person.  It was sad that Mike couldn't be there with me, but he didn't have a break so he had school all week.  The best part for me was that my mom was feeding me and I wasn't having to do it myself.  It was also fun to get to see the Anderson family at Sharayah's farewell, as well as the Mabey's when I went to Thomas's lacrossse game.  I love Utah. :)
• In November we had two more Dr. appt and my Dr is SO amazing and did ultrasounds every time I came in just because he had worked so hard with us to get this baby and knew how excited we were.  It was pretty fun to see her moving around and healthy. 
  
  
  
  
  
• I also decided at the end of November that she was a girl.  The Dr wouldn't confirm for a few more weeks and Mike didn't want me to talk about it, just in case this picture was wrong, but once I saw it I knew it.
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• At the very end of November I started to show just a little bit.  It was exciting to see that she was really in there and growing.  You'll have to excuse the towel on my head and the awesome face - I just took this to send to my sister, but now it's the only early belly picture I have.  haha!

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Time to Document - 1st Month

Ok, it's really past time to document, but the best time is now right?

Currently I'm 25 weeks pregnant and have only written in my journal twice.  So my goal is to go back through each month and blog about what has been happening.  It may end up being long and tedious, but my memory is horrible so I better so it soon.  

Month 1:

For those who don't know or hadn't assumed we have had quite the time getting pregnant.  I've spent lots of time the endocrinologist and OB over the past 4 years.  Tons of blood tests and other tests.  We were told that I have PCOS and that my body wasn't ovulating at all, but that there isn't much that can be done about either of those things except to wait and hope.  At the beginninng of 2013 we started trying fertility drugs (Clomid) and they were unsuccessful.  My doctor was so great at doing an ultrasound each time to see if the drugs worked, which made our life a little less stressful.  When we went to Maryland things were too crazy to keep trying Clomid, but as soon as we got back I went back to the doctor and asked to try and similar drug called Femara.  I tried it in August and went in for the ultrasound and the doctor told me that I was going to ovulate.  I was so shocked!!!  We were so happy!  It was great.  I think both of us felt like it was finally our time.  Then came the month of patiently waiting to see if we were really pregnant.  I took one pregnancy test three weeks later, but the second pink line was so faint we weren't sure, so we waited a few days and tried again.  I woke up the middle of the night and was so excited to take the test that I couldn't sleep, so I just got up and took it.  So we found out at 3:30 in the morning that I was pregnant.  We both laughed and cried and were so excited!  I couldn't go back to sleep because I was so excited so I was pretty tired the next day, but who cares! :)

               We actually ended up telling all of our parents the next day.  They were all so excited for us!  Both of our moms cried. One of the reasons we decided to tell them so quickly is because they were worried about us because coincidentally the day that we found out we were pregnant we were also robbed. 

The Rafferty's were in town for a recruiting trip that James was doing at ASU, so Amy actually had come over to our house that day to hang out with Nora and she found out door open wide.  She said it didn't look like anything was gone, but she wasn't sure.  She called Mike and ended up picking him up from ASU.  He had the cops come and dust for fingerprints and file a report.  He also got our apartment maintenance to come and secure the door that night and they came back the next day to replace our door with a much more secure door.  In the end, we discovered the robbers took both our laptops and our tablet.  About $3000 worth of technology.  We were really bummed, but were having some really weird mixed feelings because we were also so happy that we were finally going to have a baby!  It was definitely a weird day.  

             We spent the month being so happy dreaming about our future and talking about plans.  It is so unreal that this is really happening for us!